There are some characters I can't help going back to and tinkering with. Especially when new Hero Forge items appear that are much more in line with how I actually envisaged the character. Or just put a new spin on somebody.
Especially since I always described this character as "if dwarves had fashion models, she would be one".
So this week's DnD Character Colouring Book is a return to Lady Ovelia Opalfist... a character who is dead and gone, but even so, deserved a new outfit. This is the third version... the first being back in the actual hand (Photoshop) colouring days. The second version I was very happy with at the time. And I still like it, but then they dropped the new "Strappy Corset" and the Victorian/Edwardian inspired "Sleeved Fitted Shirt", and here we are. The colour zones on the shirt aren't perfect, but I had absolutely pictured her wearing a corset not dissimilar to this ones, so the overall look definitely works. Even if I did have to slightly cheat the long sleeves with a set of gloves.
There may also be some backstage tinkering to add a brooch to the neck of her shirt, just because that feels right to me... and I'd need to look it up, but her trinket might have been a Dwarven made brooch.
Anyway...
There are times when I really shouldn't follow a soup recipe I find on Instagram. It wasn't bad, per say. It wasn't a disaster... it was just... really fucking boring. Which is kind of what happens when you make the thing I've basically been referring to as chowder, but you leave out either chicken or chorizo or both. It was an experiment that I won't be repeating.
The Mini Media Reviews for this week start with Ammonite. A movie that is somewhat the lesbian equivalent of The History of Sound from the week before... but slightly worse in that the two main characters are actually real people this time but the lesbianism and their relationship are all an invention of writer/director Francis Lee... which kind of deflated the movie somewhat for me. But both Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan are excellent.
Next up was the first half of the first and only season of The Nevers. A very Joss Whedon show. Good though, as his stuff very often is. This is also the last show he worked on before all the allegations about him came to light, and I don't think he worked on the second half at all. But a number of other familiar behind the scenes names from Buffy and other projects were also on this, and the sixth (and possibly best of the first half arc) episode is fully written by Jane Espenson, which doesn't surprise me in the slightest. So we'll see how the second half arc works out, given that it was made a couple of years later. Hopefully they manage to wrap up some of the ideas since they knew it wasn't going ahead.
Just as a sidebar, and for various reasons, I've spent entirely too much time this week in healthcare professional's offices, getting poked and prodded and tested and stabbed with needles. With at least one more to come next week.
Speaking of, Friday was also Chiro Day.
Friday Night DnD was... slightly weird, because it turns out that last week's guest star wasn't all she appeared to be. And most of the dungeon felt strangely empty, partially because we avoided a couple of combat encounters that we really didn't have to do. So we're definitely in the final act.
Anyway...
Not much to report from the Supermarket Safari, although the nice folks who make the coffee I like have made a refill so I don't have to keep buying big glass jars, since I have so fucking many of them at this point it's getting ridiculous. Although, for unexplained reasons, the coffee comes in jars that are either 200g or 400g... the refill was 300g... [confused face].
Afterwards we did a trip to Kmart to look at fitted sheets... but the problem with having looked online is when the colour on the website doesn't actually match the colour the item is in person. So I might still end up with it, because it's the best option without spending entirely too much money, but it does come back to my general complaint with bedding manufacturers who don't seem to believe that colour exists. And strong colours exist. And some of us actually want strong colours and not neutral on neutral on neutral. Because that's fucking boring.
But I've complained about that a number of times.
